Category: Spirit
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How to activate your Avatar state
Nickelodeon’s Avatar showed a generation how to act properly Avatar State – Alexandre Porto · 6 min read In the animation created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino called Avatar: The Last Airbender, the watcher follows the main character, a boy called Aang that has a deep connection with a bloodline of people that can…
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Musashi’s Rules to Mastery: Think of What is Right and True
In The Book of Five Rings, Musashi reveals the rules of mastery. Step one: Alexandre Porto 5 min read The Book of Five Rings was written in one sitting. “I take my brush and begin to write, at 4:00 A.M. on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month, 1643.” Musashi is the most…
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Conquer yourself. Now.
A comprehensive guide to conquering yourself right now. Alexandre Porto 5 min read What is conquering yourself? To conquer yourself, one has to have a self. One’s identity as an individual should be completely obliterated for your own self to be defeated. If the self-identity of an individual is not so easily destroyed, then it cannot…
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Does Zen Make You A Better Person?
Does Practicing Zen Make Someone Into a Better Person? The best way to describe the practice of Zen is as a process. Many people have had great success in achieving enlightenment by practicing meditation and living in accordance with Buddhist precepts. However it could be argued that these are both methods that are not part…
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How to Practice Zen?
The most important principles of zen are: Non-attachment; Contentment; Acceptance; Non-attachment: This means that one should not be attached to anything. In fact, the Buddha taught his disciples to let go of everything. Contentment: This means that one should be satisfied with what they have in life. One should not desire for more, because it…